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Artefact
Marketing · Paris, France · Founded 1998 · IPO 2006 Thoroughbred
Artefact mafia
Startups founded by Artefact alumni
Former Artefact employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Marie BeduFrance
Hans Peter NielsenDenmark
Ben KüstnerGermany
Ben NevilleUnited Kingdom
William PambrunFrance
Fred VolhuerFrance
Lucas LefebvreFrance
Yann GabayFrance
Kasper KrogDenmark
Flore de LasteyrieFrance
Arnaud CaldichouryFranceGlobal footprint
Where Artefact has talent and traffic
(169 of 2,522 staff)
team presence
across markets
Capital deployed
Artefact's 4 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Artefact appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2022–2025. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
4 deals across Artefact's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
02 · Portfolio market map
Artefact's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Artefact
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Artefact on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
See Artefact on the full Dealroom platform
Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.